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DisadvantagesYou get fat! Heat can be overpowering. Advantages far outweigh any drawbacks

...at Turks and Caicos was quite strange, it is a fairly new resort. We exited the plane down steps on a very small runway - the wings overhung the grass. And boy, was it hot! Customs was not in an air conditioned part of the small airport buildings and I thought I might wilt! We were to stay in the Sandals resort, an oasis in somewhat of a desert. A taxi took us there, something of an experience as...

...for Amazon Mechanical Turk with you, I hope it's of some help or interest to you.
Amazon Mechanical Turk
I found out about this by accident really, this wasn't what I was researching at the time but found myself drawn into reading about it and then things just progressed from there. I don't really know the history of the site, although I think it stared up in 2005, but to be honest, if your...

AdvantagesVaried tasks to chose from, Quick and reliable tracking of work and payments

DisadvantagesUS-centric, Can only cash out via Amazon.com

...Amazon.com is now more than just a place to buy cheap books from, it seems. One of a suite of extra web services now offered by the internet giant, the Amazon Mechanical Turk was first launched in 2005 as a crowdsourcing marketplace - or to put it more bluntly, a place for people to post jobs they wanted doing, and for other people to do them in return for payment, a bit like a virtual job centre...